Xiamen's Middle School Students' Trip Characteristics Research

This paper analyses middle-school students' trip characteristics based on data from the 2009 Xiamen resident trip survey. Through statistical description of the differences in trip characteristics between residents and middle-school students, the authors find that middle-school students travel by bicycle more frequently, their trip distances are shorter, and their trips cluster heavily at a few points of the day (a tidal phenomenon, where students' busiest trip hours account for 15.91 and 10.36 percentage points more of their total trips than residents). According to a chi square test, trips made by bicycle are correlated with age (p<0.00001) and gender (p<0.05). Meanwhile, because of their simple trip purposes and short trip distances, walking and bicycling are the most common mode for students, constituting 70.92% of trips within the downtown area.

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  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412442.022
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  • © 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Gao, Yueer
  • Ding, Ming
• Conference:
  • Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2012-8-3 to 2012-8-6
• Publication Date: 2012-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 200-206
• Monograph Title: CICTP 2012: Multimodal Transportation Systems—Convenient, Safe, Cost-Effective, Efficient

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle travel; Mode choice; School trips; Students; Travel patterns; Travel surveys; Walking
• Geographic Terms: Xiamen (China)
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01499999
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784412442
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Nov 12 2013 2:34PM